Hey OP there’s this amazing movie called Licorice Pizza from visionary director/auteur Paul Thomas Anderson which you should check out. It’s a 70s period piece drama-comedy about young people struggling to hit personal development milestones - or trying to hit them way too early!

It’s a tasteful look at an odd couple relationship that doesn’t shy away from asking hard questions or being morally ambiguous. Something about it reminded me of the Coen brothers film A Serious Man specifically but it had a similar sense of humour to all their movies. Easily one of the best films of the 2020s for me. As an easter egg for PTA fans it is wild to see Philip Seymoure Hoffman’s son take a leading role when they look so similar and his father featured so heavily in the other PTA movies.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap from last year was a perfect bad movie. Even shoehorning in his aspiring pop star daughter into the movie as herself made it better.

BadMovieBible on youtube might be up your street, OP

I need a GitHub style host for my git projects. They are all toys and I don’t write anything worth collaborating with me on! Anyway my current CV has my GH profile linked to it so that people can see at a glance that I have personal projects/toys and know a range of languages.

One thing I’m going to miss about leaving GH is that I’ve got a few commits in FOSS projects on there like the Gentoo Package Manager, although maybe I can follow them if they move.

my nerd!

Alpine package manager and use of MUSL over glibc are pretty similar to a BSD. Like others have pointed out there are limits to how closely a Linux distro can match the deliberate structure of those distros given the different design philosophy

OpenRC works just fine for me

Dinosaurs would be fun, and would accurately portray canonical

There are a few projects like lima and crossroads (not sure about name, might be crossover) by canonical which create a new user in /home and runs ubuntu “natively” on M series chips.

I’d be tempted to stick with macOS and get an M3, then run linux in a VM with QEMU or whatever. Given your focus on ergonomics I don’t see any other hardware that will match your expectations.

Refurb models come with i5 processor at 3.5Ghz and 4GB RAM but has another slot you can put another chip into (or replace both with 8GB RAM chips). The processor is also replaceable so you could hit a higher clock speed. Everything in a thinkpad is modular including the screen so you can pretty much do what you want with it.

Edit: Yeah, tbf I skimmed over your spec list. Not sure why the apple hardware or the CPU generation is important, especially for the latter where the clock speed is what really matters. Could probably put 16GB RAM in each slot.

Edit2: X1 Carbon or something from that series would probably match the lightweight requirement although they are less modular. No replacing the CPU.

Thinkpad T420

It does get better with some of the more advanced distros. Perversely they are easier to run and maintain. The beginner distros try to hide the complexity to make everything more user friendly but these abstractions can be more confusing than the fundamentals they are hiding.

However there’s nothing people online can do if you don’t find linux interesting enough to do a deep dive on it.

Read someone else saying the vampire coven is like a group of Christian missionaries and that interpretation makes sense

There’s a British film called All My Friends Hate Me from 2021 which covered a lot of the same themes but I think was more successful in terms of capturing the social anxiety of the main character. It’s incredibly funny but uses tropes from the horror genre to really emphasise the paranoia the main character is feeling.

Friendship felt very safe, for lack of a better word. It was cringe but had a soft edge to it like the US Office.

I thought it was great. Nice to see a new IP succeeding too. The twins being superficially, uh identical, while being played by the same actor could have backfired but I felt like the film did well to give them their own distinct personalities.

One thing that stuck with me was the racial politics of the vampire coven. When people were turned to vampires they became homogenised and lost part of their person/self and this seemed to be a metaphor for people losing their black identity by being forcibly integrated into a white system. It was unclear whether they recovered some of their personhood when the head vampire was killed but I think that’s what the film was saying in the post-credits scene.

I don’t know if I like words being hijacked/appropriated by people with extreme views. The weird semantic shift for words like “feminist” (or “nazi” actually now that I think about it) points to a deficit in the education system in our countries.

Yes, in the sense that I believe men and women should have equal rights. I suspect people who say they aren’t feminists have a different definition of it.

Depends how much time you spend in the terminal but if you spend a lot of time there then it can just about replace a tiling VM with a maximised terminal screen. Has full functionality to add workspaces, sessions and split windows horizontally/vertically.

I partially get around the loss of my tiling WMs on my work PC (macbook) by leaning heavily into tmux. I know there are MacOS tiling managers like spectacles but I prefer using applications that are multiplatform so I have “transferable skills”.